For those of you that enjoyed testing the recipes from Shelina Permalloo’s book I mentioned in a previous post, you might enjoy her new book, The Sunshine Diet. Although she claims it’s not a diet book, she did lose over 20Kgs while she was writing it, and presumably testing the recipes.

My favourite recipes so far have been chocolate and banana ice cream (p182) and the home-made coconut milk with cinnamon and chocolate (p37). Neither of which sounds particularly slimming – so just goes to show. And yes I’m aware there’s a theme here; I’m putting it down to the proximity of Valentines Day when there’s always chocolate on the menu.

Red wine and chocolate – hard to beat. Happy Valentine’s Day.